Complaints procedure
Please find below the policy for making a complaint in school.
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Complaints Procedure | [pdf 448KB] |
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Online Safety At Home - Think U Know
As school across the UK are now closed to most families. We know this is a difficult time for most parents. These activities are intended to provide you with support and resources to help you learn about online safety at home with your child.
Below are some resources which will help parents and carers to carry out a simple 15 minute activities with your child using the resources below, additional advice can be found at www.thinkuknow.co.uk
Parents & Carers Helpsheet
The first thing to do is read our Parents and Carers Helpsheet, please find this document below. This contains key online safety advice and links to the Think U Know resources, as well as support services.
Home Activity Packs
Once you have read the Helpsheet, access the documents below for your first home activity packs for the age range you need.
Each pack contains two 15 minute activities to do with your child using Thinkuknow resources. The next two will be released in a fortnight’s time. If your child enjoys a reward sheet to complete, please find one below.
If you have older children at home the Think U Know website also has resources for Junior and Secondary children, which can easily be downloaded.
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Parent Helpsheet | [pdf 340KB] |
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4 - 5 years Activity Sheet | [pdf 163KB] |
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5 - 7 years Activity Sheet | [pdf 252KB] |
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Reward Chart | [pdf 165KB] |
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Online safety – pro-active parental vigilance and consistent messages to children are the best way to keep children safe online.
The fictional online character "MoMo", which was alleged to have encouraged children to self-harm, is now being described as a hoax, amplified by media coverage, the bigger issuein any event, is that there will always be a new risk online as well as ever-present safety issues – please support the strong messages, we teach in school, and be pro-active and in charge of what your infant child can access:
- Ensure you know and you are in charge what your children can access online.
- Ensure your children understand the importance of not giving personal information to anyone they do not know.
- Tell your children no-one has the right to make them do anything they do not want to do.
- Tell your children to walk away from anything that they feel is strange or unsafe online, and come and tell you.
- Use parental controls to keep children safe.
- Infant children are unlikely to go looking for inappropriate material, but it’s also important to ensure that they don’t stumble onto it accidentally.
- Also, sometimes some older children ‘share’ inappropriate material with younger siblings – there can be an element of ‘showing off’ when older children do this, they may think it’s ‘funny’ – they need to know it’s not! Likewise online games, younger children can be recruited to play games with content that is not infant-friendly.
- Make considered and age-appropriate purchases with online safety in mind – how will you monitor your infant child’s use of the internet if they have a mobile phone ?
"The NSPCC publishes advice and guidance for parents on discussing online safety with their children, as well as Net Aware - the UK's only parental guide to social media and gaming apps."
Among the most common signs to watch out for include children who:
- Become very secretive, especially about what they are doing online
- Are spending a lot of time on the internet and social media
- Are switching screens on their device when approached
- Are withdrawn or angry after using the internet or sending text messages
- Have lots of new phone numbers or email addresses on their devices
If you are concerned or have any questions on how to approach the subject with their children, they can contact the NSPCC Helpline on 0808 800 5000 or visit the NSPCC website.
You can find more advice and tips on how children can navigate life online at BBC Own It, which has been set up to help 8 to 12 year olds deal with anything they might encounter online – this may be appropriate for some of our older children who have more advanced IT skills.
It’s worth having a look at KidRex (Google) as a child-safe search tool recommended by some parents in school – it may be useful to you ?